All 7 Uses of
nominate
in
An American Tragedy
- But now, unless he were so fortunate as to be nominated and subsequently elected to this county judgeship, defeat and political doldrums loomed ahead.†
Chpt 3 *nominated = proposed that someone be offered a position, be a candidate, or receive an honor
- But this ...But now, as the Coroner shrewdly foresaw, might not this case prove the very thing to fix the attention and favor of the people upon one man—the incumbent district attorney—a close and helpful friend of his, thus far—and so sufficiently redound to his credit and strength, and through him to the party ticket itself, so that at the coming election all might be elected—the reigning district attorney thus winning for himself not only the nomination for but his election to the six-year term judgeship.†
Chpt 3
- The August convention and nominations.†
Chpt 3
- Unquestionably—and then with such adjournments as it was possible for such talent to secure, might it not be possible that long before he could hope to convict him, he himself would automatically be disposed of as a prosecutor and without being nominated for and elected to the judgeship he so craved and needed.†
Chpt 3nominated = proposed that someone be offered a position, be a candidate, or receive an honor
- Strictly to himself, however, he kept the fact that in view of his own approaching nomination in the ensuing November election this should all prove most opportune, since in the absence of any such special term the case could not possibly be tried before the succeeding regular January term of the Supreme Court, by which time he would be out of office and although possibly elected to the local judgeship still not able to try the case in person.†
Chpt 3
- Indeed, so rounded a man was he politically that this year he had been slated for that very county judgeship nomination which Mason had in view.†
Chpt 3
- And but for this sudden and most amazing development in connection with Clyde, it had been quite generally assumed that Belknap, once nominated, would be elected.†
Chpt 3nominated = proposed that someone be offered a position, be a candidate, or receive an honor
Definition:
propose that someone be offered a position, be a candidate, or receive an honor
Often, nomination is just the first step. Multiple people may be nominated for a single position or honor with a winner selected by vote. Or a single nominee may require approval of a group before the offer is official.